Shea Stadium personnel carry off an injured fan after Game 5 of the 1973 National League Championship Series. When the New York Mets upset the Cincinnati Reds to win the pennant 50 years ago this month, players from both teams sprinted off the Shea Stadium field to avoid thousands of Mets fans who were flooding onto it. In the tunnel leading to the visitors’ clubhouse, Reds players stood guard brandishing bats, in case the unruly mob came for their star outfielder, Pete Rose.
“If those were policemen standing around there, I’m going out and start robbing banks, because they did very little to keep order,” Bench complained. “I did a pop-up slide, and when I did that, I kind of hit Buddy,” Rose said in the interview this month. “He was a competitive guy, and he called me a c---sucker. I was caught off guard and I said, ‘Well, Buddy, you don’t know me that well.’” Rose grabbed Harrelson, which is captured in an iconicthat shows the Cincinnati base runner’s muscular forearms overpowering the svelte New York shortstop.
“I ran the bases like I owned them and then stomped on home plate with both feet just to defy the bastards,” he wrote.That set up the decisive fifth game at Shea, with the Mets’ ace, Seaver, going against Jack Billingham, who was no slouch himself. Billingham had gone 19-10 with a 3.04 ERA and outpitched Seaver in the series opener. But Rose was the star attraction, the perfect villain.
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